Category: Design & Technology

01 Jun

Good 50×70 poster contest: Climate Change

Ever thought you can’t combine a serious topic like climate change and biodiversity with beautiful design? Here’s the proof you can! Good 50×70 called out a poster design contest on climate change. Click here to watch the results… People who looked at this item also looked at… COP15 in retrospect, and our common future Climate [...]
12 Aug

This is SCHOOL

Lovely concept, great design. ‘This is SCHOOL’  is a t-shirt that’s a counterpoint to all the negative sentiment the Beijing Olympics has been stirring up.  And it is also a reminder that the Olympics is all about UNITY, which the shirt shows by featuring every single competing nation in a yummy word track. Read more [...]
02 Mar

Design for the other 90%

“The majority of the world’s designers focus all their efforts on developing products and services exclusively for the richest 10% of the world’s customers. Nothing less than a revolution in design is needed to reach the other 90%.” —Dr. Paul Polak, International Development Enterprises A great exhibition on view in the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, [...]
19 Feb

Virtual Water

Here’s another great website which shows you the ‘virtual amount of water’ used to produce certain foods. Check it out. Theory behind the concept of »virtual water content« [excerpt from waterfootprint.org] Virtual water content – The virtual-water content of a product (a commodity, good or service) is the volume of freshwater used to produce the [...]
15 Nov

Give one. Get one

Between November 12 and November 26, OLPC is offering a Give One Get One program in the United States and Canada. During this time, you can donate the revolutionary XO laptop to a child in a developing nation, and also receive one for the child in your life in recognition of your contribution. Find out [...]